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Our final addition to our female foundation herd is Sprint. She is a 2020 Cria born at Sunnyhill Alpacas in Alberta. Her dam is Snowmass Triple StarzXX and has a loaded Snowmass pedigree including Sonwmass Elite Legend and Snowmass Best Man. On her sires side is our very own Averegan's Aftershock. He is an outstanding black male from our very own Xanadu P Resolute and our Cimarron Gold Legend daughter. This combo produced the cutes light fawn femal that is well covered, boxy, great coverage an

Also added to the foundation herd this winter was Miss Broadway. Her sire is Averegan’s Magnus. Magus is a 2x Supreme champion out of Our Gold Legend daughter Memphis and Xanadu P. Resolute. Magnus was gorgeous, super fine, good density and shine for days. We sold him before we got a chance to use him. I’m thrilled DNA has had some outstanding offspring from him and when the chance came to buy a daughter I couldn’t pass it up.
Broadways dam is a Chananza daughter, so we expect she should j

Amora, what can I say, I spotted this adorable face when I was Arriba when she was just a month old. She instantly caught my eye in the group and her fleece was so lovely and shiny. I was still thinking about her the next day and knew I had to negotiate with Lori to have her.
She is one of the first crias from Zotz Chico De Charlevoix and Lori’s gorgeous Cortez daughter Amelia. I have been a fan of Cortez for many years, His crias are all extremely good looking and have the ability to thro

As I mentioned in my previous post this past fall we are thrilled to say that our favourite male Averegan’s Argo has been chosen as the newest herdsire at Arriba Linea Alpacas. She has an outstanding grey and black program and he will be a great addition to her lineup. Not to mention he will get a lot more work at Lori’s place. He has spent a couple summers with Lori breeding and according to her, he walks in find the highest spot to stand on just like he owns the place. He is close by for us t

The second new addition we added to our foundation girls was Lady Geiger. She is a bit older female at 9 years of age she is the daughter of Guin and 1/2 sister to some of our outstanding blacks Argo, Argonaught, and Atticus. We sold Guin in 2019 and with the sale this year of Argo I was looking to ad some of that line back into my herd especially with a daughter as Guin gave me nothing but boys while I owned her. Lady G is out of Accoyos of America Diomedes and the Nautilus line. Lady G is buil

2020 was a year of growth and a year of change at Averegan. We saw a market for new farms that were looking for proven genetics and bred girls that’s were easy keepers and good moms. So we were able to help set up these farms with some of our older but favourite girls. This left a substantial gap on our own foundation herd. The next few post are going to showcase the newest additions to our farm.
For those of you in the know we added Xanadu P. Resolute as our main herdsire in 2010. Although

As we reflect back on 2020 we can appreciate the highs and the lows of the last year. It’s not to say that there were definitely some challenges, but we learned to be more fluid or roll with the changes.
2020 was a year of change in more ways than 1. We have had to reevaluate our business/breeding plan, to try to remain current.
We have opened an on farm store stocked with all our favourite Alpaca items, and trying to stay true to our goal of using as much of our own fiber to make ou

It was an awesome showing this weekend for all! A big thanks to all the volunteers for working hard and other farms for bringing great competition! We brought 20 animals on the trailer to this show with Hubbert Farms, Sunnyhill Alpacas and Alpagas Chelsea. With the lovely judges Arturo Pena and Robin Nasemann, the entire show was a great time with lots of public interest. Here at Averegan we took 3 animals, and started off the showing with Averegan's Magnus, taking a first in the toughest class

Averegan Alpacas and Hubbert Farms have merged the end of this year and with lots of crias expected, we need to clear some space in the barn! Take advantage of this deal and package animals together from both farms!

Make this year about bettering your herd.

On the sixth and seventh of August we headed up to Navan Ottawa to attend the 11th Navan Fair Alpaca Show. With an astounding 80+ entries in the Composite Halter portion and 70+ in the Fleece Show, we were very happy to participate in such a successful show! The show committee did a fantastic job at check-in, announcing, making sure no one missed their classes, and were open and happy to take all suggestions and concerns. Here at Averegan we'd like to take a second to thank all sponsors, committ

Here she is...first cria of 2015 a lovely white female out of our Shamroc daughter Lola and Arriba Linea's award winning male Aqeeto.
As you can see she is adorable, was a beautiful day and the delivery was textbook, just how we like them. I amazes me every year how nervous I still get when I see that bubble, especially the first few, I guess i have to get my birthing legs every season.
Lola is a great mom, very attentive and the baby is gaining a steady half pound every day.

Shearing is done for another year, I love how clean they all look, and they must feel a ton better now that the warmer weather is coming.
I always laugh at how funny and different the crias look after their first shear, some of them forget how to walk without all that fleece and all of them roll in the first dirt hole they can find.

Well as we get ready for our first show quickly followed by shearing I knew there wasn't going to much time next week to get pre shearing pictures. Yesterday's weather was gorgeous and sunny, so camera in hand we set out to take some pics before all that gorgeous baby fleece some off.
They just never look the same after that
Enjoy

Well one sure way to beat the winter blahs is halter training...i laugh because it can be anything but fun. For the most part all the kids eventually learn that the halter means you get to go place and see things, but there is always one or two who will fight the whole process tooth and nail. Those are animals I believe are sent here to teach me patience :)

Well I guess life gets busy, good thing we have cold winter days to be able to sit down and catch up on things...we are still loving the whole alpaca lifestyle, every year we are seeing the fruits of our labours and are improving our animals all the time. It is fun to look back on some of our past animals, you know the ones you thought were fantastic, the ones you were really excited about showing, and seeing those fleeces compared to today, It makes you proud to see the hard work you put in is

Merida is the first cria born to Memphis (our dark Gold Legend daughter) and our main herdsire, Xanadu P. Resolute. She was the first cria born this year and the only one we didn't get to see born. We were at our cottage and missed the birth by about 20 minutes. Memphis has been a great mommy lots of milk very attentive, yet still lets us check her baby and weigh her. Merida is sweet, born with a beautiful head style, she is not as dark as I had hoped but her fleece is very organized, fine

Here is a couple more pics of the 2014 cria crop, there are a few little superstars this year, i think...

CONGRATULATIONS and THANK YOU to Ariya Alpacas for their purchase of Shamroc Alyst!
We give a HUGE shout out to our friends down in Quebec at Ariya alpacas for their purchase of our loved and adored herdsire Sham. He is a lovely little gem and it's hard to let go of him but we know he is going to be used to his potential! We hope THE BEST for your breeding program and hope he produces many years of spectacular offspring for you.
Thank you once again.

It's that time again! Pictures of our 2013 show cria crop! We let the babies out into the big field-we just had 30+ centimetres-and they had a ball! Lots of running and jumping and getting stuck in the snow. We also took some fleece pictures of our crop. We are VERY impressed, not a bad one in the bunch. We are extremely proud of our newest male Xanadu P. Resolute, very happy with our purchase of this male. Very excited to see how our babies stack up at the AO spring show. As always, all our bab

Our best cria of the season (maybe ever) has been consigned to the 2013 CNASF select sale in April.
This little beauty is pretty special and really hard to let go, but we wanted to represent our very best
Check her out!!!!!

Well we are back from the CNASF East Futurity and what a show it was. We took 5 animals and won, two firsts, one second, one third and a fourth.
As well as Grand Champion Medium with Averegan's Melia
Grand Champion Dark with Averegan's Legends Tempest
and SUPREME HUACAYA with Averegan's Melia

What a surpise, we love Melia and she did take Supreme in Navan this past Aug, but we are talking the Futurity, lots of tough competition from all over Canada, quite the accomplis

Well we are heading into the late fall and getting everything put away for the long winter. Time to get out the heated water buckets and bring the animals in off of the pasture and up on hay. We have a time change next weekend and chores will have to be done earlier.
We have had some nice sunny days as of late and thought it was a good time to take some updated pictures of this years crias. Boy they grow fast, the June babies are all around 60 pounds.
We actually got some nice fleec

We have had some more babies since my last blog, it is a boy year for us, but they sure are spectacular so we don't mind one bit. Two more Resolute crias a Choctaw baby and our very first out of our 5X best in show winner Deefender. These boys are stunning not a dud in the bunch we could'nt be more excited.

What a busy weekend, we were on baby watch for 7 of our due females and 4 of them delivered between Sat am and Mon am. Pleased to say they all arrived safe and sound with no issue, and so far we have 3 Boys and 1 Girl. We are still working on names. The little girl out of DPO Luna X Misty Waters Chipper is the only repeat combo of the season, she is full sister to our two time champ Bella, Only lighter...
We had new arrival Juanita Sky give birth to a stunning fawn Shahtoosh boy. Our othe

A BIG THANK YOU, to my friend Sally at 7th Heaven Alpacas for her purchase of Gia our beautiful Chipper daughter out of Amber Canelo. Gia has been one of our favourites from the moment she was born, lovely fine fleece and personality plus. She has a ton of hidden colour in her pedigree, black on both sides, grey and browns. She should bring tons of great genetics to her dark breeding program.
Im sure she will love her new home and brand new barn. We will miss her.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

The micron counts are in! We sent in 17 test and we are proud to display all of them. We are very pleased. Here they are...

Lola (age 2) AFD 18.1 SD 3.6 CV 19.9 CF 99.1 Curve 50.7
Memphis (cria) AFD 20.2 SD 3.5 CV 17.3 CF 99.1 Curve 34.9
Chipper (age 7) AFD 24.7 SD 6.1 CV 24.8 CF 88.8 Curve 32.2
Juanita (age 8) AFD 25.5 SD 5.8 CV 22.8 CF 85.2 Curve 34.3
Moe Joe (age 8) AFD 26.9 SD 6.0 CV 22.4 CF 76.6 Curve 33.4
Deefender (age 3) AFD 22.3 SD 4.4 CV 19.7 CF 9

No baby today but I do have updated pic's of the two babies over at Hubbert Farms. Seeing all these babies makes me want one. Come on LUNA, FAITH AND CATRINA!!! You can do it!

The second Resolute cria in Canada is here! We were not expected this big boy, he is fairly early, but is perfect. This dark brown boy was born over at Hubbert Farms and is out of a fawn dam. We are VERY pleased with our Resolute crias! We are very excited to get one of our own, as our dams just won't give birth! We are very excited all the same!!!

The first Res cria in Canada has arrived. This little girl showed up earlier than expected but is as perfect as can be! This girl was born over at Hubbert farms and is out of a dark brown dam. If this is any indication of how the Resolute crias are going to look like then WOW!!! We couldn't be more pleased with our boy Resolute.

Well we are back from the Alpaca Ontario Spring Show. Close to 400 entries make this one the largest show in Canada.
We took 7 animals and here's how they did

Averegan's Trinity (now owned by Datrix Alpacas) 2nd Juvi white female
Averegan's Summit (owned by Datrix) 3rd Juvi white male
Averegan's Legend's Tempest 2nd Juvi brown female
Averegan's Grand Illusions 2nd Juvi Multi male light
Averegan's Melia 1st Juvi Fawn female/ GRAND CHAMPION FAWN FEMALE
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Averegan Alpacas is proud to introduce our newest addition to our foundation females.
Memphis Gold Alyst is another Cimmaron Gold Legend daughter, out or a true black Champion, Northmark's Messiah's Prophetess. She is dam to 6x champion Northmark's Atreyu.

These are fabulous genetics and as you can see the staple length on these girls is outstanding.

Memphis is pictured with her two half sisters Mirage and Tempest out of Legend, they are all very similar looking, all

There is only 11 days until the 2012 Alpaca Ontario Show. It is very exciting and we are getting ready here at Averegan. We have been doing our "Diva Day" just this past weekend, Trimming topknots, needling (ivomec, vitamin D),clipping toe nails, cleaning bums (get that nasty poop out) and picking out those very sticky burs. We also have Hubbert farms whole show team for some last minute halter training and "diva day". My god 19 animals to needle and fix up to look pretty, it took at least 1 hou

There Is only 3 more days left in our buy one get one half off sale.
Buy any animal on the sales list at full price and get the second one half off.
The animals included in this Fantastic Sale are
Diamonte's Goldie Fawn- A beautiful Diamonte daughter who is a wonderful producer. Bred to Xanadu P. Resolute our brand new male for a spring baby.
Tell Catarrah- A reserve champion, Alpamayo and Vaccoyo Grand Daughter. She is bred to our newest male Xanadu P. Resolute. Her density

What a better way to beat the winter blues than to have some fun in the snow. Saturday was a beautiful day so we decided to let our big boys out for a run. They had a ball, they rolled and wrestled, ran and jumped, it was hilarious to watch, even the older very serious boys got into it. We captured a few moments on film, and posted them for you to enjoy. Spring can't come soon enough !!!!

We could'nt be more thrilled that two of our Shamroc babies will be going to live with Trixi and David at Datrix Alpacas. Trinity and Summit are two beautiful crias that will be a great addition to your herd. We will miss them lots but know they will have a great home with you.
Thank you and Congratulations!!!!

Big thank you to Tracey from Spruce Haven Alpacas, for the purchase of our first Shamroc cria Lyric.
She is a beautiful girl and was quite difficult to let go, she will give you many many years of incredible offspring. Can't wait to see her 2013 cria with McCoy.

These past few weekends some of our crias graduated halter-training school. They have been on a few trips up the barn road and back with no incidents, except for the occasional cat chase. This past weekend though,when my 4 year old nephew was over he found a friend in one of our friendliest cria of the year, Tempest, who he has nickname fluffy. Tempest has been more then willing to be led around by him, eat pellets, and give kisses. Radar had a little bit of hay on his back (he really loves to

Well it is almost the end of November and we are still enjoying +10 weather up here in Ontario. Although there is a lot of mud, no complaints here.
So we have been taking advantage of the weather to get some updated pictures of the 2011 crias.
It amazes me that the grow so quickly, we have started weaning the first couple from our farm.
We also take in all the weanlings from our neighbour Hubbert Farms, to halter train them for the spring shows. I love how sweet they are now an

It's funny how things come about. I was getting my hair done and the lady in the next chair was talking about her new fall fashions for her on line boutique (TiaStar.Com) My hairdresser knew I owned alpacas and suggested that they do the fall photo shoot at our farm. One thing led to another and they ended up with some fabulous shots of the animals, all their natural colours worked wonderful with the natural feel of the clothes, a really great fit. The online store is Tiastar.com and the phot

On July 31st Catalina delivered the last cria of the season, a little white male. He might be even cuter than his full sister Lola. He looks very similar to the other Shamroc babies Melia, Trinity , and Grand Illusion. Actually on rainy days it is very hard to tell the little man, Trinity, and Grand Illusion apart. We have ended the season with a total count of 4 female and 3 males and are very happy with all of them, they are very funny to watch run around the field. We actually have another li

Well Kathy McConnel (Hubbert farms) and I decided to fly from Toronto to Edmonton the attend the how to ace alpacas with Judge David Barbooza and his wife Brenda. What a great time we had, Kevin and Leanne Sept of Sunnyhill alpacas were so accommodating to us. They have a beautiful farm and beautiful animals. I left there with good laughs,I met wonderful alpacas breeders and a new way of looking at my herd.

We went to The Navan Fair this previous Thursday and Friday. This show was judged by Dawn Brooker. We took KJ Legends Mirage, Averegan's L-O-L-A Lola, Averegan's Smokin Oakin and SVA Ashton's Deefender. Mirage took 3rd Place (Behind the Grand Champion And Reserve) due to stress breaks in her fleece. Lola took 2nd place with the judge commenting on her incredible brightness. Smo took a "well deserved" 1st Place. And Deefender took 1st Place, Grand Champion Fawn and went on to win Best In Show.

On July 4, Carmella delivered a light fawn male with 2 brown spots. He is a very stocky male with lovely fleece. We call him Grand Illusion, Louie for short. ASC Annika also delivered a white boy with a couple brown spots on his face and a light fawn spot on a blanket. His name is Radar and he has given us quite a laugh playing with the other crias.

Shazzy FINALLY had a baby. She was day 369. SHE'S a bit darker than her full sister Mirage and is COVERED from head to toe in thick curls, shes got almost 2 inches in fleece! Shazzy went into Labour at 9:00 PM because the babies neck was back, really glad we had the vet out to deliver her. By the time Shazzy had delivered and the baby was up it was around 12:00PM.The little one is strong and healthy and immediately tried to get up, she weighed in at a whomping 26.5 pounds!! Same as her full sist

We have added more alpacas to our sales list. We have been blessed with many girls the past couple of years and we are letting out a few of our prized girls for you to choose. We have a variety of colours and many of the are ribbon winners some are even champions. They are a real example of how our breeding program has advanced.

On June 15th EH Catrina had a beautiful light fawn girl that is very shiny and soft. This was quite a hard birth as the baby was too big for Catrina and she had quite a hard time pushing it out. She weighed a good 18 pounds and is very quiet. Catrina is soo sweet when the vet was trying to get the baby out she was clucking like she knew she was having a baby. The other babies run and run and run trying to play but the new cria doesn't like to play yet. I like the name Trinity because her mom is

She Is Just A Cutee Pie. Here are some pics of her all fuzzy.

Today I was sorting through my fleeces to find out weights and lengths on them. Amazingly EH Scout and Tell Catarrah had the longest fleeces of my herd (Excluding Crias). Both will a total of 4 Inches. Scout has a 3rd year fleece and Catarrah a second year fleece. My heaviest fleece (again excluding crias) was Tell Sayonara with 3.2 lbs with a 3rd year fleece. Interesting... Isn't it funny how we can be entertained with fleece for so long?

Faith had a cria today.... Faith, she is not due until the 18th. I figured it would be Shazzy who is over due now. She had a tooooooo cute little Fawn Girl. Thats the 5th girl for Faith, I figured it would be a boy. Good birth, she weigh's a fair 16 pounds and is a cute as a button with a really short nose and short ears and thick fuzzy legs. Gia finally has a friend( Yes the other little crias name is going to be Gia). I only have pics of when she is really wet so I will post fuzzier pics of he

Today I went out and took some great shots of the baby girl. She is crazy and she runs everywhere!!! Names we have are Leilani, Gia, Temptation, Athena, Dixie and Allure. Any suggestions?
We also got some good pics of the boys and the girls. We have posted the pics on their Openherd.
Enjoy! She kinda looks like a Gia or a Leilani.

Finally!!! Amber had her baby!!! It came into the world fighting, It even kicked me when I was picking off the membrane. Amber was day 363. SHE (yes its a girl) is light fawn. It is the only Chipper baby this year and had a perfect birth except the sac was quite thick. We weighed her on our new scale and she weighted a hearty 19 pounds. I will post pics when she is all fuzzy tomorrow.

Today Amber is at day 359 and she's driving me crazy. She's been staring off like they do when there going to have it and then when she rubs her head she eats some grass again. Also she lays down for a while then gets up and goes to the poop pile and almost immediately drops down again but NOTHING!! I even leave the property for like 20 minutes and come back and nothing. She's driving me CRAZY!! So hopefully today she will have it, I just don't even know anymore. I will keep you posted.

There's only 12 more days of our A.O. Show Special. As our attention is turning towards the cria season we need to make more room in the barn. Alpacas included in this sale are
BKD's McCoy, a amazing male with perfect conformation, dense fleece and limited genetics,
EH Scout a superb male with many ribbon's under his belt and not to mention his EXTREME fineness and handle,
Tell Catarrah a Res. Grand Champ female with density and GREAT skin-to-tip crimp and limited genetics,

The Trillium Alpaca Show was on Sat. and of course it was raining. You had to walk your animals across from building to the arena through the rain, I just tried to run through the rain with them. First up was Lola and she took 3rd, so I was happy with her. (I'm keeping in mind that that class was really, really tough) This was a full fleece event so after they won anything less than 2nd they got sheared. So Lola was sheared and she screamed like the shearer's were killing her. Then McCoy went i

Yesterday was shearing and now they all are cool. The little guy Smo who has the CUTEST little head is sheared his head is still there and he looks SO SO SO SO CUTE!!!! The other crias Callaway, Lyric and Lola are crying like they want to be sheared and I told them that you won't want to be sheared on Sat. at The Trillium Alpaca Show. Now that they are sheared I can see baby bellies, which excites me. I still don't know about one though, Annika is a maiden who is due laterJune. Can you tell by t

Amber is still holding on. Doesn't she know I CAN'T WAIT ANYMORE!!! A lot of other farms have crias, and I know she will have it when were at the Trillium Alpaca Show only 4 days away. Also shearing will be on Wednesday, and they will finally be cool. The heat is taking its toll on the animals. Especially Amber.She's only 4 day's over due but still. I so want it to come here safe but if it was a dark brown with black high-points girl or a black or grey girl that would be great. Oh well still wai

My camera takes such good pictures. Just look at the backround. There's many pic's of the cria's as shearing day is only 3 days away and two of the 5 crias we have are getting sheared. The others are going to the Trilliam Alpaca Show, which is also right around the corner so I thought you'd like to see the little crias before they got sheared. Enjoy.

Finally a day where i'm not staring out the windows looking at the preggo mommies. The last couple of days you can find me staring out the windows looking at the mommies who are laying in the field and not eating. I think when there laying around there turning the baby around. It only lasts 2 days tops and previous years they have spun the cria and roughly the next month they have had it. Still it scares me to death. Like what if its a uterine torsion or a breech. These are the thoughts that go

Yes I know this kinda late, this show was on April 8-10. The judges were Amanda Vandenbosch and Helen Humphries. Mirage took 1st place Juvenile Female Brown-Older and then went on to win Grand Champion Brown Female!! Lyric (one of our 1st Shamroc babies) took 2nd Place Juvenile Female Fawn-Older! Lola (Our Other Shamroc Baby) took 3rd place Juvenile Female White-Junior out of 11 Entries! Our newly purchased male Deefender took his class and went on to win Reserve Champion Male Brown! Bella once

Ok, I didn't know about blogs on Openherd, I thought you actually had to get your own website. So i'm gonna try (emphasis on try) this out and hopefully update this every day with cool stuff like show winnings, babies born, great deals and all sorts of stuff thats happening over at our farm. Enjoy.